Announcement of Opportunity: Responsive Mode Call - Exploration Community Development
This call provides UK Space Agency support for the UK exploration community.
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The UK plays a major role in ESA’s Exploration Programme. The UK Space Agency wishes to support the UK exploration community to participate in, and benefit from, our investments in the ESA Exploration programme, and to prepare for participation in exploration missions with partners beyond ESA.
Exploration missions for the purposes of this call are activities that take place in the regions where humans do, or may, in the near future, live and work, namely human presence in Low Earth Orbit, and robotic and human missions to the Moon and Mars.
The UK Space Agency understands that there are numerous ideas and opportunities that could boost space exploration as a sector. Small scale funding is available to organisations that require additional support for activities which will benefit the wider UK space exploration community.
This call will remain open until further notice.
Funded Projects
Insights Meeting 2022: Imperial College London
The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport mission (InSight) is currently exploring the martian interior. The 25th meeting of the InSight Science Team was held in London from 14 to 18 November 2022. This meeting provided the opportunity to update mission team members on the operating status of the mission and for Science Team members to disseminate and discuss recent results of the mission, it also supported up to 6 UK early career researchers (ECRs) from the broader UK Space Exploration Community (outside the InSight mission) to attend the meeting.
Parastronaut Community: Kings College London
With the announcement of the first British ESA parastronaut candidate on 23 November 2022, Kings College London will facilitate a series of workshops and networking activities to learn from and engage with different experts, organisations and members of the public to create a new community to support and learn from the parastronaut project. The ultimate goal is to show that space exploration is for everybody.
Planetary Materials: University of Leicester
A workshop at Space Park Leicester to inform and gather ideas about technologies for the analysis of planetary materials within containment. In particular, the University of Leicester will introduce the Double Walled Isolator (DWI) and their work with the JPL-NASA team while bringing together various interest from the UK and the international community.
CryoMars 2023: University of Sheffield
The flagship meeting of the CryoMars network of UK Mars cryosphere and Earth analogue researchers, and international collaborators. CryoMars aims to support the development of a cohesive, collaborative and agile community of interdisciplinary researchers on Mars ice and Earth analogues. CryoMars 2023 was held in-person at the University of Sheffield.
Last updated 19 October 2023 + show all updates
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